Color Personality No. 5

Color Personality No. 5

"This is someone who is elegant, comfortable with formality, complex, a bit mysterious. Precise in their thinking, they quickly understand concepts, connect ideas, and envision ways to make things happen."

Victoria Pearson

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Glamorous Living Room

Glamorous Living Room

Dressy glamour prevails in the living room,
where a pair of 19th-century armchairs
from John Rosselli have silk backs with
geometric Alhambra appliqués by Pindler
& Pindler. The glass waterfall coffee table
from Mrs. MacDougall at Hinson is effortlessly
chic, stands up to hard use, and
allowed Southern to mix many antiques
without the room seeming “old-ladyish.”
The frothy, Asian-inspired ceramic garden
seat is from Mecox Gardens.

Color Personality No. 5

"This is someone who is elegant, comfortable with formality, complex, a bit mysterious. Precise in their thinking, they quickly understand concepts, connect ideas, and envision ways to make things happen."

Victoria Pearson

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Glamorous Living Room

Dressy glamour prevails in the living room,
where a pair of 19th-century armchairs
from John Rosselli have silk backs with
geometric Alhambra appliqués by Pindler
& Pindler. The glass waterfall coffee table
from Mrs. MacDougall at Hinson is effortlessly
chic, stands up to hard use, and
allowed Southern to mix many antiques
without the room seeming “old-ladyish.”
The frothy, Asian-inspired ceramic garden
seat is from Mecox Gardens.

Victoria Pearson

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Painted Wood Library

High-gloss walls in the library have many coats of Benjamin Moore’s Bermuda Turquoise — “a perfectly finessed balance of green and blue,” Southern
says. The curtain fabric is Giza in Red by Lee Jofa. For a 180-degree
swing in style, Southern threw in a French fauteuil upholstered in its original vintage tapestry from Watkins Culver Antiques. Painting by Cheryl Kelley.

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Club Chair

Southern's club chairs are covered in the boldest ikat he could find: Lee Jofa's Sokoto in red.

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Brown-and-White Family Room

Family room walls are wrapped in Lee Jofa’s
Jesi Crewel in Espresso. To move its exuberant
pattern to the middle of the room,
Southern repeated it on pillows and a pair
of reproduction armchairs from English
Country Antiques. He designed the extra-long
sofa and the club chairs, all covered in
Sanderson’s Torosay in Chocolate. The suede
ottoman is from Bill Gardner Antiques, and
the pair of antique Dutch wine bottle lamps
with black shades are from Jas. A Gundry.

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Bookshelf

Southern painted the backs of bookshelves Benjamin Moore’s Rural Earth
so the owners’ collection of ironstone and reliefware pitchers would pop.
The intricately carved black Burmese chair is from Place des Vosges —
more proof that pattern pipes down when it’s in monochrome.

Victoria Pearson

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Multiple Patterns

Patterns throw off sparks when an Andy Warhol flower print and two
Wedgwood Jasperware pitchers meet against lively crewel embroidery.

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Soft Master Bedroom

Elegantly monogrammed white bed linens and a cream satin coverlet from Leontine
Linens add to the master bedroom's soft glamour. Southern and his client designed the curvaceous linen-covered headboard. Walls are upholstered in Cowtan and Tout's old-fashioned Kimono in aqua. A pair of early-19th-century French bergères are covered
in Aspen in Fawn by Madison Leathers. The Art Deco coffee table is from John Salibello.